How many inner dialogs have you had with yourself about your smoking habit? How many times have you complained to family and friends that you want to stop but seem to stay caught in a smoking rut despite the risks and the expense? And how many programs have you tried that just failed? If you are like most people struggling with smoking, you will remember such conversations and inner dialogs and may have felt nothing will really succeed for you. Unless you tried stop smoking hypnosis, you may have been right.
If you fervently want to quit smoking, hypnotherapy is the reasonable choice for real results. Hypnotherapy to quit smoking can target the core issues that keep you smoking as well as equipping you with resources and support to be successful for good. This is not stage entertainment that is good for laughs and tricks, but a reputable therapy approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with recognized certification and strict rules of conduct.
Treatment with hypnosis does not contradict personal morals and a responsible hypnotist will honor your privacy and protect your rights just the same as any other medical professional. You do need a practitioner who is verified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who follows their stringent code of ethics and professional conduct. Included in their code is putting the mental and physical welfare of clients uppermost. They also protect clients from physical, mental or verbal, and refer clients to others as appropriate.
A well trained practitioner has the experience to address problem behavior, and stop smoking hypnosis is the second most regular type they practice. Using the most current methods which may include the precision of NLP enriched hypnosis and the ongoing support of CD's for stop smoking hypnosis as well as any prescription measures a doctor might also dictate for a patient. Using medical hypnotherapy does not mean other measures are prohibited, but they may not even be needed at all.
The reason that professionally used hypnosis to quit smoking is the most effective method to achieve success is that it addresses the three basic issues in smoking. No method can truly work that does not address each issue totally and correct the problems each causes. Most people think that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important aspect and the worst problem, but this is simply not the case. If the addiction to the compound called nicotine were the only reason for failure, most smokers would not fail multiple times in their efforts to quit for good.
Yes, nicotine is a dramatically addictive substance and for most smokers the physical dependence is very real and there are withdrawal physical responses that are also real. But did you know these last only a very few days? In fact, every bit of nicotine is eliminated out of the system in just three days or less! For many smokers, it is the fear of withdrawal physical symptoms and not the reality that causes the most suffering and which may prevent even trying to quit at all. Yet quitting without specific training has an average 5% rate of success! Hypnosis to quit smoking reduces fear of withdrawal symptoms and blunts the effect of any that do occur.
Another component of smoking cigarettes is that it provides comfort and calming, just as sucking on a pacifier calms and soothes babies. Many people treat stress and anxiety with some form of oral activity like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can substitute for the comfort factor received from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the cravings and produces the benefits of quitting instead. The mind can be conditioned to substitute the same perceptions from other activities that are helpful, not harmful. Neuro-linguistic programming techniques can train the brain to remove any linkage between smoking cigarettes and comfort.
Lastly, part of the smoking habit is plain old Pavlovian habit formation to stimuli. Smokers learn to connect smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliche of the cigarette after physical relations to automatically lighting a cigarette while having a beer or cocktail or viewing TV or talking on the phone. Here stop smoking hypnotherapy can permanently sever the association, and when the link is no longer present, there will be no cue to light a cigarette when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is served. The mind is trained to associate beneficial things with the former triggers, or to recall the helpful effects of quitting or the negatives of the tobacco.
A highly qualified hypnotist will use both negative and positive associations to replace programmed associations with smoking, selecting those most powerful for an individual patient. Quit smoking hypnosis is the only treatment modality that can fine tune the treatment to each of the three reasons for smoking and root them out. Anyone knows quitting requires support, but only smoking cessation programs using hypnotherapy effectively make you equipped to support yourself at any time.
